Patents Issued in March 26, 2019
  • Patent number: 10240464
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine airfoil includes an airfoil structure including an exterior surface that is provided by an exterior wall that has a leading edge. A radially extending interior wall within the airfoil structure separates first and second radial cooling passages. The first cooling passage is arranged near the leading edge. A radially extending trench is in the leading edge. An impingement hole is provided in the interior wall and is configured to direct a cooling fluid from the second cooling passage to the first cooling passage and onto the exterior wall at the leading edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas N. Slavens, Brooks E. Snyder
  • Patent number: 10240465
    Abstract: A trailing edge cooling system for a multi-wall blade, including: a set of outward legs extending toward a trailing edge of the multi-wall blade and fluidly coupled to a coolant feed; a set of return legs extending away from the trailing edge of the multi-wall blade and fluidly coupled to a coolant collection passage; and a connecting system for fluidly coupling the set of outward legs and the set of return legs; wherein the set of outward legs is radially offset from the set of return legs along a radial axis of the multi-wall blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: David Wayne Weber, Robert Peter Hanet, Gregory Thomas Foster, Brendon James Leary
  • Patent number: 10240466
    Abstract: A fiber preform for a hollow turbine engine vane, the preform including a main fiber structure obtained by three-dimensional weaving and including at least one main part, wherein the main part extends from a first link strip, includes a first main longitudinal portion forming a pressure side wall of an airfoil, an U-turn bend portion forming a leading edge or a trailing edge of the airfoil, a second main longitudinal portion facing the first main longitudinal portion and forming a suction side wall of the airfoil, and terminating at a second link strip. The first and second link strips are secured to each other and form a link portion of the main fiber structure. The main longitudinal portions are spaced apart so as to form a gap between the main longitudinal portions forming a hollow in the airfoil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN
    Inventors: Michael Podgorski, Bruno Jacques Gerard Dambrine, Son Le Hong, Dominique Marie Christian Coupe, Ludovic Edmond Camille Molliex, Jonathan Goering
  • Patent number: 10240467
    Abstract: A stator assembly includes a case including an arcuate wall having an aperture with circumferentially spaced first lateral surfaces. A stator vane has an outer platform with a notch. An anti-rotation lug has a base that is received in the notch and a boss extends from the base. The boss is received in the aperture. The boss has second lateral surfaces that engage the first lateral surfaces in an interference fit relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Neil L. Tatman, Richard K. Hayford
  • Patent number: 10240468
    Abstract: A turbine engine vane arrangement and a method for manufacturing a turbine engine vane arrangement are provided. The vane arrangement includes a plurality of vane arrangement segments arranged circumferentially around an axial centerline. Each of the vane arrangement segments includes an airfoil that extends radially between a first platform segment and a second platform segment. The first platform segment extends circumferentially between a first mate face and a second mate face. The first mate face of a first of the vane arrangement segments is bonded to the second mate face of a second of the vane arrangement segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Jorge I. Farah, Jonathan P. Burt, Dana P. Stewart
  • Patent number: 10240469
    Abstract: A turbocharger (1) includes a compressor section and a cast turbine section. The turbine section includes a turbine wheel (4), and a turbine housing (11) that defines a gas inlet (13), a gas outlet (10), a volute (9) disposed between the gas inlet (13) and the gas outlet (10). The turbine housing (11) also includes vanes (20) that protrude integrally from, and have a fixed orientation relative to, an inner surface of the turbine housing (11). The turbine wheel (4) is disposed in the turbine housing (11) between the volute (9) and the gas outlet (10), and the vanes (20) are disposed in the turbine housing (11) between the turbine wheel (4) and the volute (9). A method of casting the turbine housing (11) and the vanes (20) together as a single piece is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Rylance, Nathan McArdle
  • Patent number: 10240470
    Abstract: A vane structure includes an airfoil section with a first inner airfoil wall surface and a second inner airfoil wall surface. A baffle is mounted within the airfoil section between the first inner airfoil wall surface and the second inner airfoil wall surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin F. Hagan, Ryan A. Waite, Brandon W. Spangler, Steven B. Gautschi
  • Patent number: 10240471
    Abstract: An axial flow compressor is disclosed with a plurality of rotors. Each rotor includes a disk having an outer rim. Each outer rim is coupled to a radially outwardly extending rotor blade. The case is coupled to a plurality of radially inwardly extending stator vanes, i.e. cantilever-type stator vanes. Each stator vane is disposed between two rotor blades and extends towards one of the outer rims and terminates at a tip disposed in close proximity to one of the outer rims. At least one of the outer rims includes a serrated outer surface that faces the tip of a stator vane which results in a vortex flow causing air that would normally leak through the clearance between the stator vane and the outer rim to engage the stator vane to a greater degree thereby increasing the efficiency of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ioannis Alvanos
  • Patent number: 10240472
    Abstract: A brush seal for a turbomachine includes a support that has a recess, in which a spring element is clamped axially, which fastens a brush element, where the spring element is axially locked at an undercut in the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Frank Stiehler
  • Patent number: 10240473
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a sliding seal between two components. The sliding seal includes a first seal section and an uncoupled second seal section which allows the first and second seal sections to move relative to one another during relative movement between the two components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Timothy M. Davis
  • Patent number: 10240474
    Abstract: A turbomachine includes a seal device for sealing a gap between two components, with a plurality of sealing elements tippable in the direction of a relative displacement of the components. The sealing elements are mounted on one of the components and bridge the gap where the device has prestressing elements, by which the tippable sealing elements are prestressed against a respective sealing edge of the components. The prestressing elements are each supported at a front support point and a back support point of the component on the mounting side, these points being distanced from one another in the axial direction and in the radial direction of the turbomachine where the front support point is disposed radially outside and the back support point is disposed radially inside with respect to the mounting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Manfred Feldmann, Daniel Kirchner
  • Patent number: 10240475
    Abstract: An outer air seal includes a seal wall, a heat shield, a side wall and a blade seal disposed radially inward of the seal wall. The seal wall has axially opposed first and second ends. The heat shield is radially outward of the seal wall and has first and second ends axially opposed ends. The second end of the heat shield is joined to the second end of the seal wall. The side wall is between the seal wall and the heat shield and spaces the first ends of the heat shield and the seal wall apart to form an inner cavity therebetween. Inner and outer diameter ends of the side wall are joined to the first ends of the seal wall and of the heat shield, respectively. The heat shield is configured to thermally isolate an outer case from the inner cavity and the seal wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Brian Ellis Clouse
  • Patent number: 10240476
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a turbine having a plurality of vanes, a plurality of blades, a turbine shroud arranged around the vanes and blades, and a turbine case arranged around the turbine shroud. The turbine shroud is sized to block combustion products from passing over the blades without pushing the blades to rotate. The turbine shroud includes a runner arranged around the blades and a carrier arranged around the runner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignees: Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc., Rolls-Royce Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce E. Varney, Jack D. Petty, Daniel K. Vetters, Eugene Clemens
  • Patent number: 10240477
    Abstract: A turbofan engine includes a turbine engine having a rotatable fan and a generator. The generator further includes a main machine, an exciter, and a generator control unit for controlling the excitation of the main machine. A rotor assembly is located within one of the blades, and a stator assembly that is along a rotational path of the rotor assembly whereby the operation of the turbine engine rotates the fan, which rotates the rotor assembly along its rotational path past the stator assembly to generate electricity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: David Graham Ettridge, Xiaochuan Jia
  • Patent number: 10240478
    Abstract: A turbine 28 for an exhaust-gas turbocharger, having a turbine housing 2, a drum 11 arranged in the turbine housing 2 and rotatable about an axis of rotation 12, a turbine wheel 5 arranged rotatably in the drum 11, at least one volute 16, 17 formed in the turbine housing 2, at least one aperture 14, formed in the drum 11, for conducting a gas flow from the at least one volute 16, 17 to the turbine wheel 5, an inlet cross-sectional area Av of the volute 16, 17 being variable by changing an angle of rotation v of the drum 11 relative to the turbine housing 2, and the drum being mounted in the turbine housing 2 by way of bearing elements 19.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventor: Verschoor Mart
  • Patent number: 10240479
    Abstract: A variable area turbine arrangement according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a first turbine section having at least a first variable vane row and a second turbine section downstream from the first turbine section and having at least a second variable vane row. A transition duct is disposed between the first turbine section and the second turbine section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Raymond Surace
  • Patent number: 10240480
    Abstract: A vane pack assembly (25) for a variable geometry turbocharger (10) including a an upper vane ring (28) and a lower vane ring (30) and a plurality of single-axle, self-centering adjustable guide vanes (26) disposed in a turbine housing (20). The plurality of guide vanes (26) include a post (50) having a vane (52) formed integrally therewith. Each post (50) includes a convex self-centering pivot feature (56a, 56b) at one end adapted to seat in a complementary shaped concave self-centering pivot recess (48) of the lower vane ring. The vanes (52) are positioned between the upper and lower vane rings (28, 30) and pivot to control exhaust flow to a turbine wheel. The self-centering pivot features compensate for movement or deformation of the turbine housing (20) and vane rings (28, 30) due to the effects of differential thermal expansion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Shannon Scott, Eli Morgan
  • Patent number: 10240481
    Abstract: A fairing (118) comprises an inner platform (122), an outer platform (120), a plurality of vane bodies (124), and a flange (126). The inner and outer rings define radially inner and outer boundaries of an airflow path. The vane bodies extend radially from the inner platform to the outer platform. The flange extends radially outward from the outer platform, and is defined by a frustoconical surface (S) extending radially inward and axially aft from a substantially radial upstream surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Ariel Scott, Conway Chuong
  • Patent number: 10240482
    Abstract: A gas turbine system includes a load coupling connecting a gas turbine to a generator. A load coupling guard surrounds the load coupling to define an enclosed spaced around the load coupling. The load coupling guard includes a porous sleeve such that hydrogen coolant leaked into the load coupling guard from the generator is vented to ambient air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Laxmikant Merchant, Dinesh Venugopal Setty, Avishetti Srinivas, S. T. Deepak
  • Patent number: 10240483
    Abstract: A bearing housing may include a main body integrated with a bearing receiving portion. A bearing retention stop may extend from the main body and include a plurality of access cutouts for facilitating the removal of a bearing from the bearing housing without causing damage to the bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gary L. Grogg, Garth J. Vdoviak, Berci Cherpician
  • Patent number: 10240484
    Abstract: A gas accumulation detection and ventilation system for a gas turbine enclosure includes a pipe array positioned adjacent a floor of the gas turbine enclosure and a ventilation assembly including a fan, an air flow inlet and an air flow outlet. The pipe array includes at least one pipe having at least one opening therein. The fan of the ventilation assembly directs an air flow sweep through the air flow inlet along the floor of the gas turbine enclosure. A hazardous gas sensor panel in communication with the pipe array and the ventilation assembly detects an accumulation level of turbine fuel gas in the gas turbine enclosure based on input from the pipe array and activates the ventilation assembly according to the detected accumulation level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Hua Zhang, Manuel Moises Cardenas, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10240485
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbine housing (2) for an exhaust gas turbocharger. The turbine housing (2) comprises an outer housing (3) and an inner housing (4) as well as a bearing flange (5). The outer housing (3) is joined to the bearing flange (5). The inner housing (4) comprises a first shell component (7) and a second shell component (8), wherein said first shell component and said second shell component are made of different cast steel materials and are placed side by side in a transverse plane (QE), which is oriented transversely to the longitudinal axis (LA) of the turbine housing (2), and are joined to each other. The bearing flange (5) is a one-piece part, made of uniform material, of the first shell component (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventor: Elmar Grussmann
  • Patent number: 10240486
    Abstract: A new power generation thermodynamic cycle is described that eliminates need for bulk liquid condensation and vaporization steps required in conventional ORC power systems. An exemplary harmonic adsorption recuperative power cycle system offers more efficient power generation as compared with conventional ORC systems. A multibed adsorption system is used to provide thermal compression for the cycle. An adsorption compressor contains a sorbent with strong adsorption affinity for the working fluid in the pores while well outside the P-T conditions needed to condense the liquid phase, allowing the adsorption compressor to reduce operating pressure exiting the expander.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignees: Battelle Memorial Institute, Rockwell Collins Inc., Ethosgen, LLC
    Inventors: B. Peter McGrail, Radha Kishan Motkuri, Jeromy J. Jenks, Paul Roege, William Abrams
  • Patent number: 10240487
    Abstract: A method to start up and manage a combined cycle thermal plant for energy production comprising the execution according to a set sequence of a plurality of functional groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: STAMICARBON B.V.
    Inventor: Ezio Pasqualon
  • Patent number: 10240488
    Abstract: An exhaust gas system for a motor vehicle may include an exhaust gas aftertreatment device communicating fluidically with an exhaust gas evaporation device. The exhaust gas aftertreatment device and the exhaust gas evaporation device may be arranged in one or more housings. A connecting line may be provided to fluidically connect the exhaust gas aftertreatment device to the exhaust gas evaporation device. The connecting line may include a fluid inlet connected to the exhaust gas aftertreatment device and a fluid outlet connected to the exhaust gas evaporation device. An evaporation bypass line may branch off from the connection line at a branching-off point. A valve apparatus may be arranged in at least the connecting line and may be adjustable between a first position to fluidly connect the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet, and a second position to fluidly connect the fluid inlet to the evaporator bypass line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Klaus Irmler, Michael Schmidt, Peter Geskes, Eberhard Pantow, Andreas Kleber
  • Patent number: 10240489
    Abstract: A variable valve mechanism of an internal combustion engine includes a camshaft having a general shaft part and a cam part arranged next to each other in an axial direction, an input arm that swings when pressed by the cam part, an output arm that is swingably mounted and that drives a valve when swinging, and a switch device that switches the variable valve mechanism between a coupled state where the input arm and the output arm are coupled to swing together and an uncoupled state. The output arm has a great height so that clearance between the output arm and the general shaft part is 3 mm or less when the variable valve mechanism is in the coupled state and the valve is closed. If the output arm bounces in the uncoupled state, the output arm comes into contact with the general shaft part through the clearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: OTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Maezako, Akira Sugiura
  • Patent number: 10240490
    Abstract: A rocker arm comprising a supply path that communicates with a first lash bore and a first spool bore. A spool is in the spool bore. A hydraulic lash device is in the first lash bore, wherein an outer body is configured to collapse during a first valve lift profile when receiving a low pressure fluid, and wherein the outer body and the inner body are configured to cooperate rigidly when receiving a high pressure fluid during a second valve lift profile. The spool is movable to a first spool position to align the spool notch with a first spool path and a second spool path, and the spool is movable to a second spool position to align the spool notch with the second spool path and an accumulator path. The supply path in to the rocker arm is the only source of fluid to the spool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventor: Douglas J Nielsen
  • Patent number: 10240491
    Abstract: A control system of an engine is provided. The control system includes an exhaust variable valve mechanism for changing an operation mode of an exhaust valve, a fuel injection controlling module for controlling a fuel injector to inject fuel at a fuel injection timing associated with an operating state of the engine, a variable valve mechanism controlling module for operating the exhaust valve via the exhaust variable valve mechanism in a first operation mode when the operating state of the engine is within a compression self-ignition range, and in a second operation mode when the operating state of the engine is within a spark-ignition range, and a first in-cylinder state quantity estimating module for estimating a first state quantity inside the cylinder relating to a burned gas amount within the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Shuhei Shintani, Takuji Okumura, Hiroaki Horiuchi, Shigeru Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10240492
    Abstract: There are provided a cylindrical portion in which a passage for feeding/discharging working fluid to/from a fluid pressure chamber is formed and which is disposed inside a driven-side rotary body, a bolt member that connects the driven-side rotary body to a cam shaft, a valve body body for regulating a flow direction of the working fluid relative to the fluid pressure chamber and a valve accommodating body that accommodates the valve body, the valve body and the valve accommodating body being disposed inside the cylindrical portion, and an urging portion provided on at least one of an upstream side and a downstream side of the valve accommodating body and configured to generate a repulsive force between an other object that regulates a position of the valve accommodating body and the valve accommodating body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignees: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NIFCO INC.
    Inventors: Yuji Noguchi, Hiroyuki Hamasaki, Youhei Mizuno
  • Patent number: 10240493
    Abstract: A cam phaser including a rotation phaser and a hydraulic valve hydraulically loading the rotation phaser, wherein the hydraulic valve is connectable torque proof with a cam shaft so that the cam shaft is rotatable, wherein the rotation phaser includes a stator and a rotor configured coaxial with the stator, wherein the rotor is rotatable relative to the stator, wherein the hydraulic valve is configured so that it protrudes at least partially into the rotation phaser, wherein an adapter is provided for a relative axial positioning of the rotor and the stator. According to the invention the adapter is configured for loose mounting in the rotation phaser so that a fixated connection of the adapter in the rotation phaser is provided when the cam shaft is mounted at the hydraulic valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: ECO Holding 1 GmbH
    Inventors: Steve Nance, John Snyder
  • Patent number: 10240494
    Abstract: Lock pin (71) is disposed movably in axial direction in accommodation hole (70) formed at vane rotor (12). Top end portion of lock pin (71) is fitted into lock hole (23) provided at housing (11), then relative rotation position of vane rotor (12) is restrained at predetermined lock position. Vane rotor (12) is provided with small diameter portion (84) and large diameter portion (85) which are formed alternately in circumferential direction. Large diameter portion (85) extends in circumferential direction so as to cover lock hole (23). First vane (36A) protrudes from outer periphery of large diameter portion (85) to radially outer side. At least a part of lock pin (71) and at least a part of accommodation hole (70) overlap with large diameter portion (85), and are located at position that overlaps with area (86) formed by elongating first vane (36A) to radially inner side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kaita Nakano, Hiroyuki Kato, Kenji Ariga
  • Patent number: 10240495
    Abstract: A rocker arm for engaging a cam in a valve actuation arrangement includes a latch pin assembly having includes a latch pin, retainer, and biasing mechanism. The latch pin has a pin body with a head and a tail at the second end; the body defining an open volume; the tail having an open mouth in communication with the open volume of the body; and the open volume having a non-circular cross-section. The retainer has a male engagement portion and an outer portion. The male engagement portion is within the open volume of the body through the open mouth. The male engagement portion has a non-circular cross section. The outer portion is non-removably secured to an outer arm of the rocker arm. The biasing mechanism is oriented in the open volume of the body and between and against the latch pin and the retainer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventor: Andrei Dan Radulescu
  • Patent number: 10240496
    Abstract: An oil supply apparatus includes: an oil pump; a main oil supply path; a sub oil supply path connected to the main oil supply path; a first oil supply section which is connected to the main oil supply path and which supplies oil to a crank bearing section of a specific crank journal; a second oil supply section which is connected to the sub oil supply path and which supplies oil to a crank bearing section of a crank journal other than the specific crank journal; and a control apparatus which sets, as a target oil pressure, a highest required oil pressure among required oil pressures required from a plurality of hydraulic operating sections in accordance with an operation state of the engine, and which controls the discharge amount of the oil pump so that an oil pressure detected by an oil pressure sensor equals the target oil pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichi Kamimura, Hirokazu Matsuura, Tomohiro Koguchi, Kenta Honda
  • Patent number: 10240497
    Abstract: A process for production of cylinder oil comprises providing used oil, providing fresh cylinder oil, and blending the used oil with the fresh cylinder oil. The used oil has a lower TBN value than the fresh cylinder oil. A process for the operation of an internal combustion engine comprises preparing cylinder oil as described and using the cylinder oil in the internal combustion engine. An apparatus for the preparation of a cylinder oil comprises a blending means for blending used oil and fresh cylinder oil. The blending means is in flow communication with at least one compartment of an internal combustion engine that comprises used oil or at least one storage compartment comprising used oil, at least one storage compartment for fresh cylinder oil, and at least one cylinder of an internal combustion engine. Used oil and fresh cylinder oil are used for the preparation of cylinder oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: LUKOIL MARINE LUBRICANTS GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Claussen, Jan Thiedeitz
  • Patent number: 10240498
    Abstract: A device and a method for regenerating a particulate filter that is arranged in the exhaust tract of an internal combustion engine. There is disposed at least one NO oxidation catalytic converter upstream of the particulate filter for the oxidation of NO, and in particular to form NO2. At least one heating device is also provided upstream of the particulate filter, by way of which an exhaust-gas flow that is conducted towards the particulate filter can be heated to a defined temperature in accordance with defined regeneration parameters, in particular in accordance with a degree of loading of the particulate filter and/or in accordance with an efficiency of an NO2-based regeneration of the particulate filter by way of an NO2 quantity formed in the at least one NO oxidation catalytic converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: MAN Truck & Bus AG
    Inventor: Andreas Doering
  • Patent number: 10240499
    Abstract: An exhaust purification system includes: an NOx reduction type catalyst, which is provided in an exhaust system; and a regeneration treatment unit, which recovers an NOx purification capacity of the NOx reduction type catalyst, wherein the regeneration treatment unit includes: a target setting unit, which sets a target injection amount of at least one of a post injection and an exhaust pipe injection that is required for setting an excess-air-ratio of the exhaust gas to the target excess-air-ratio, based on a suction air amount of the internal combustion engine, the target excess-air-ratio, and a fuel injection amount of the internal combustion engine; and an injection controller, which controls an injection amount of at least one of the post injection and the exhaust pipe injection, based on the target injection amount input from the target setting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Masaaki Nishito, Teruo Nakada, Takayuki Sakamoto, Daiji Nagaoka
  • Patent number: 10240500
    Abstract: An oxidation catalyst for treating an exhaust gas produced by a compression ignition engine comprising: a substrate having an inlet end surface and an outlet end surface; a catalytic material disposed on the substrate, wherein the catalytic material comprises platinum (Pt); and a capture material, wherein the capture material is disposed on the outlet end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Andrew Francis Chiffey, Francois Moreau, Paul Richard Phillips
  • Patent number: 10240501
    Abstract: A two-stage venturi cooler comprises a first tubular conduit having a longitudinal axis, the first elongate tubular conduit having an exhaust gas inlet at one end, a mixed gas outlet at an opposing end, and a cooling gas inlet, wherein structures inside the first stage define a venturi that forms a column of mixed gas, wherein the column of mixed gas comprises a ring of exhaust gas surrounding a core of cooling gas; and a second tubular conduit that is coaxial with the first tubular conduit, wherein the second tubular conduit has a mixed gas inlet at one end and a mixed gas outlet at an opposing end, and wherein the mixed gas inlet is to receive the column of mixed gas and to surround the column of mixed gas with an entrained column of ambient air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Alan D. Sheidler, Sai K. Nandigam, Tyler L. Holp, Xijun Wang
  • Patent number: 10240502
    Abstract: The subject matter of the disclosure relates to a method of diagnosing NOx storage catalyst during the operation of a motor vehicle. The method uses two diagnosis sub-methods having various sensitivities with respect to sulfur contamination of the NOx storage catalyst. The results of the two sub-methods are used to ascertain proportions of aging of the NOx storage catalyst resulting from thermal aging and sulfur contamination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Frederik De Smet, Kim Ford, Marcus Timothy Davies
  • Patent number: 10240503
    Abstract: A pump for delivering a fluid includes: a pump housing having an inlet and an outlet, and having an inner circumferential face; a drive shaft; an eccentric inside the pump housing, the eccentric being eccentrically movable relative to the pump housing; a deformable element arranged in a pump gap between the inner circumferential face and an outer surface of the eccentric, the deformable element and the inner circumferential face defining a delivery channel. The deformable element is forced against the pump housing by the outer surface of the eccentric along at least a portion of the delivery channel such to form a sliding sealing of the delivery channel that can be slid along the delivery channel from the inlet to the outlet to deliver fluid by movement of the eccentric. A reinforcing ring has a coefficient of thermal expansion smaller than a coefficient of thermal expansion of the pump housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Hodgson, Yves Kopp, Georges Maguin
  • Patent number: 10240504
    Abstract: An amount of electric power consumption by a battery is reduced, and deterioration of a coil is suppressed by efficiently heating an injector and melting urea crystals at an early stage. A control device for a reducing agent injection device fills the device with a reducing agent at a start-up of an internal combustion engine and executes control for injecting the reducing agent into an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine by the injector. The control device includes an energization control section that executes energization control in which, after an exhaust temperature of the internal combustion engine becomes equal to or higher than a specified threshold value, a temperature of the injector is increased by energizing the coil of the injector for a specified time and melting of the crystals of the reducing agent precipitated in the injector is promoted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Bosch Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Nakao, Fumiyasu Kurogi, Akira Kunishima, Atsushi Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Syogo Tashiro, Wataru Domon
  • Patent number: 10240505
    Abstract: A method is provided for controlling nitrogen oxide emissions in the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine by means of successive actuation of catalytic converters in the exhaust tract and of the internal combustion engine, wherein the catalytic converters or the internal combustion engine are actuated in succession if the actuation of a first device is not sufficient for reducing the nitrogen oxide emissions. An arrangement for carrying out the method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Frederik De Smet, Mario Balenovic, Vijay Krishnaswamy
  • Patent number: 10240506
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and vehicles are provided for estimating nitrogen oxide values for vehicles. In accordance with one embodiment, a system includes a memory and a processor. The memory is configured to store one or more kinetic models pertaining to a propulsion system for a vehicle. The processor is configured to at least facilitate obtaining a nitrogen value pertaining to a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) unit of the propulsion system, obtaining an initial nitrogen oxide measurement via a nitrogen oxide sensor of the propulsion system, using the nitrogen value as an input for the one or more kinetic models pertaining to the propulsion system, generating a kinetic model output from the one or more kinetic models, and estimating an updated value for the initial nitrogen oxide measurement based on the kinetic model output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Yue-Yun Wang, Gongshin Qi, Guiseppe Mazzara Bologna
  • Patent number: 10240507
    Abstract: In an in-line four-cylinder internal combustion engine, exhaust ports (2b, 2c) of cylinders #2 and #3 merge together inside a cylinder head and become open as one flat collective exhaust port (2bc). An exhaust manifold (5) includes separate individual exhaust pipes (6, 7) for cylinders #1 and #4 and a collective exhaust pipe (8) for cylinders #2 and #4. Tip ends of these three exhaust pipes are connected to a catalytic converter (11). An equivalent diameter of the collective exhaust port (2bc) is larger than equivalent diameters of the exhaust ports (2a, 2d) before merging. A short diameter of the collective exhaust port (2bc) is smaller than or equal to the equivalent diameters of the exhaust ports (2b, 2c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takanobu Sugiyama, Hidehiro Fujita, Takayuki Hamamoto, Yuta Kanashima
  • Patent number: 10240508
    Abstract: A decoupler includes a short bellows of ten or fewer convolutions, an internal liner spaced from the bellows internally and a cover spaced radially outward from the bellows providing an air gap both internally and externally of the bellows. The liner has a free-standing downstream end proximate a damper which is captured by a cover, inner damper ring and slide ring. Two decouplers are mounted in series to accommodate angular, axial and lateral displacement when operably connecting two end pipes and one central pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: American BOA, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Barbely, Rolf Janssen, Srinivas Gade
  • Patent number: 10240509
    Abstract: An engine includes a crankcase with cylinders and fins on outer circumferences of the cylinders. A crank shaft penetrates the crankcase. A cooling fan is provided on an outer side of the crankcase and arranged coaxially with the crank shaft. A first cover covers an outer side of the cylinders and the crankcase, and the cooling fan. A second cover capable of being detached from/attached to the first cover. The first cover includes a first opening facing the cooling fan, and second openings facing the fins. The second cover includes an air inlet facing the first opening, and attached to the first cover to cover the first opening and the second openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: YAMAHA MOTOR POWER PRODUCTS KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kengo Nishi, Nobuo Jinnohara, Shinya Tsuda
  • Patent number: 10240510
    Abstract: A structure for cooling an exhaust manifold may include a duct cooling the exhaust manifold by using traveling wind or fan wind, a duct opening and closing portion mounted at a rear end of the duct for cooling an exhaust manifold to open or close the duct for cooling an exhaust manifold, and an exhaust manifold protector disposed at a lower end of the duct for cooling an exhaust manifold and enclosing the exhaust manifold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Jong-Wan Han, Yong-Beom Park, Dang-Hee Park
  • Patent number: 10240511
    Abstract: An engine assembly and method of distributing coolant in an engine assembly. A cylinder block includes one or more pairs of cylinder block openings disposed therein. Each pair of cylinder block openings include two cylinder block openings, each configured to house a piston. A cylinder head in fluid communication with the one or more pairs of cylinder block openings. A coolant manifold includes coolant flow passages, each in fluid communication with a coolant flow inlet disposed in the cylinder block between the two cylinder block openings in each pair of cylinder block openings. Fluid from each coolant flow inlet diverges into two coolant flow passages, each extending about a peripheral portion of a respective cylinder block opening. Each coolant flow passage extends from the peripheral portion of the respective cylinder block opening into one or more outlets from the engine block and into the cylinder head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Mathew Clark, Nathaniel P. Hassall, John Jerl Purcell, III
  • Patent number: 10240512
    Abstract: A rankine cycle system includes: an internal combustion engine; a gas-liquid separator; a first pump; a steam generator; a superheater; an expander; a condenser; a first control valve; and a controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10240513
    Abstract: A method for repairing an automotive cooling system within an engine block of an engine includes installing at least a hollow repair stent and sealant. The repair stent may have a continuous cross-section or may be a hollow semi-cylinder defining a gap. The method includes draining coolant from the engine, removing the water pump from the engine without removing the timing chain cover of the engine, inserting the hollow repair stent including the sealant through the coolant passage, wherein the coolant passage extends through the timing chain cover into the engine, re-assembling the water pump to the engine and adding coolant to the engine so that the hollow repair stent remains in the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Inventor: Mark Jefferson Reed